What is the Tomatometer®?

The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV programming quality for millions of moviegoers. It represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show.

From the Critics

From RT Users Like You!

Fresh

The Tomatometer is 60% or higher.

Rotten

The Tomatometer is 59% or lower.

Certified Fresh

Movies and TV shows are Certified Fresh with a steady Tomatometer of 75% or higher after a set amount of reviews (80 for wide-release movies, 40 for limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows), including 5 reviews from Top Critics.

Movie Genres

Past GTAs

And the Tomato goes to...

Welcome to RT's 13th Annual Golden Tomato Awards, in which we honor the best-reviewed movies of 2011. From the biggest Hollywood hits to the most provocative indies, we've got the films that won the critics' hearts -- and probably inspired you as well.

It was another wild and wonderful year for cinephiles, as we collectively bade farewell to the Harry Potter franchise while offering a hearty "welcome back" to The Muppets. In addition, we delighted at the antics of stat geeks (Moneyball) and jealous frenemies (Bridesmaids). Over at the arthouse, we empathized with a down-on-his-luck silent movie star (The Artist) and an anthropomorphized chimp (Project Nim). Which films will take home the coveted Golden Tomato Awards? Where do your favorites rank? And which of these flicks took home the User Tomato award, decided by you, the RT faithful? Use the navigation menu to your left and find out!

How It Works

Limited releases are defined as opening in 600 or less theaters at initial release. Platform releases, or movies initially release in fewer than 600 theaters that later expand, are categorized as Wide Release.

Foreign releases are defined as non-English language films.

Each critic from our discrete list gets one vote (as determined by their review), all weighted equally.

In order to be considered for domestic categories, a movie must have 40 or more rated reviews and a television show must have 15 or more.

A movie must have 500 or more user ratings to be considered for the User category.

Each movie is eligible in only one genre.

Reviews without ratings are not counted toward the results of the Golden Tomato Awards.

Because reviews are continually added, manually and otherwise, we have a cutoff date at which new reviews are not counted toward the Golden Tomato awards. This year's cutoff date is 1/1/2014.

We use a weighted formula (Bayesian) to account for variation in the number of reviews per movie. The winners are determined by the rankings, designated as the "adjusted score", after applying said formula:(R ÷ (R+M) × T + (M ÷ (R+M))) × A, with "R" representing the number of rated reviews, "M" the minimum number of reviews needed for a movie to qualify, "T" the Tomatometer score, and "A" the average Tomatometer of all the qualifying movies.